Improved apparatus foe slabbing soap



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HARVEY PHELPS AND- ALVAH PHELPS, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK. Letters .PatentNo. 68,385, dated September 3, 1867.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SLABBIN G SOAP.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: v

Be it known that we," Hnnvnv PnnLrs andALVAH PnnLPs, of the city and 'couhty of Albany, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Slabbing Soap; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, feud exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a. top view of.our invention, and Figure 2 is a'vertical elevation of the inverted U-sihaped wire-tcnsioned and detachable soap-cutting frame. The object of this invention is to slab soap of a more uniform thickness than has heretofore been accomplished by the employment of an inverted U-shaped frame, having-wires tensioned therein horizontally, and at the required distances apart; and toadmit of cutting .slabs of various thicknesses by having corresponding number or scriesof attachable wirc-tensioned frames applied to a strong Usshaped i'raine, which is secured to the outcr ends of longitudinally sliding bars, thenear ends of which are provided with lateral projections or pins which follow in fixed ways or guides. The said frame of wires is drawn through the soap-block horizontally by means of a suitable Windlass.

' To enable others skilled in the art tofully understand and construct the same, we will proceed to describe it as follows: i I v A represents the Windlass 3 B, the main supporting frame for the Windlass; c, the horizontally sliding bars, the near ends of which are provided with lateral projections, which are fitted to slide in fixed or stationary guide .bars 02. To the other extremity of said longitudinally sliding bars c'is secured an inverted U-sliaped iron frame, E. Now, when it is desirable to cut-the block of seep into slabs of any required thickness, an attachable inverted U-shaped frame l l, made of wood, into which are fastened equidistant cutting wires g, and the same held by means of suitable pegs or keys, is readily temporarily secured to the u shaped supporting frame E by means of the clamps H H, or their equivalents, as is shown in'the drawings. The frame E is provided with flanges it, which, when the frame F is attached, tend or prevent the latter from contracting while its wires are being drawn through the soap, as already indicated.

It will be readily perceived that for every varying thickness of "slab" to be cut, it will be necessary to have a corresponding number of attachable wire-tensicned frames F at hand. One end of the rope or -chain of the sliding bars 0 c, thence returned and coiled round thecapstan or shaft A. Theframe B is stationary during the operation of'cutting or slabbing'the soap; but thewire-tc nsioned frame F is drawn through or past the soap-block bymeans of the Windlass, as'already explained.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is---- 1. .We'claim the employment or use of the attachable and detachable frames F, constructed as described, and tiliie same secured to the movable frame E by'means of the clamps H H, or their equivalents, for the purposespeci ed.

2, We claim, in combination with thc frames E F and clamps H, the windlass A, frame B, guide bars cl cl, and sliding bars 00, the whole beingarranged to operate in the manner and for the purpose shown and described.

i i HARVEY PHELPS, ALVAH PHELPS. Witnesses:

'J. M, EATCHER, Guns. MILLER, Jr. 

